Hepworth Movies

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch....

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy...

A girl's beau poses as a burglar to fool her boastful father.

Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham.

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years...

An elderly woman is determined to board an omnibus that does not want to stop for her.

Two young men help two girls escape.

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly...

A professor eating his lunch at his work table becomes suspicious of the taste of his cheese. He puts a slice under the nearby microscope. But the...

A poet struggles to get her work accepted.